Michael Jackson’s manager has recalled the devastating moments he had to tell the King of Pop’s mother and children that the star was dead.

Frank DiLeo was one of the first people to arrive at the hospital - and says he “almost fainted” when a nurse told him Jacko would not survive.

Then DiLeo, who had been rehired by Jackson only months before his death, was handed the job of breaking the news to the star’s closest family.

“I had to tell Katherine first,” he said of Jacko’s mother. “And it was pretty emotional. She grabbed me and cried and we hugged and cried together.

“I called [father] Joe Jackson, but he’d already known. I gave him my sympathy, and then I had to tell the children.

“I’ve never lost somebody like that. It was very difficult. I went in with a social worker and a doctor and… they knew, they knew.

“And they got up and I said, ‘I’m sorry, but your father’s passed away’.

“And they hung on to me for a while. We all cried.”